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Barming market report ME16 0, Maidstone
The ME16 0 (Barming) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,202 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME16 0 (Maidstone) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical ME16 0 (Maidstone) home changed hands for £387,500 in 2026 (median of 86 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £404,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,300 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 9,202 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME16 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ME16 (Maidstone). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where ME16 0 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What ME16 0 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for ME16 0 is £387,500, taken from 86 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £404,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in ME16 0
A square metre of ME16 0 home has cost about £4,300 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME16 0 36% above the country at large.
ME16 0's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £387,500 | £387,500 | 86 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 233 |
| 2024 | £367,200 | £390,409 | 200 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 179 |
| 2022 | £370,500 | £434,454 | 234 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 340 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 218 |
| 2019 | £305,000 | £399,782 | 209 |
| 2018 | £320,000 | £426,566 | 258 |
| 2017 | £315,000 | £429,628 | 354 |
| 2016 | £292,000 | £408,511 | 293 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 262 |
| 2014 | £243,500 | £345,447 | 300 |
| 2013 | £219,000 | £315,119 | 244 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 200 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 201 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 162 |
| 2009 | £193,500 | £311,053 | 212 |
| 2008 | £204,000 | £334,399 | 189 |
| 2007 | £208,000 | £352,826 | 421 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 455 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 470 |
| 2004 | £183,000 | £332,364 | 549 |
| 2003 | £177,500 | £326,998 | 424 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 469 |
| 2001 | £140,500 | £270,104 | 374 |
| 2000 | £126,000 | £247,275 | 375 |
| 1999 | £102,200 | £203,679 | 372 |
| 1998 | £88,500 | £178,644 | 237 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 264 |
| 1996 | £80,300 | £169,349 | 221 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 197 |
In cash terms the typical ME16 0 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £387,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 155%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME16 0 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.3% | +0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 86 ME16 0 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 442 sales a year before the financial crisis and 186 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the ME16 0 market
Against the ME16 district median, ME16 0 sits 10% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around ME16 0
For renting purposes ME16 0 sits in Maidstone. The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £914 a month here against £1,962 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Maidstone
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, which against the £387,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
ME16 0 (Barming): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in ME16 0 (Barming)?
Are property prices falling in ME16 0 (Barming)?
Is ME16 0 (Barming) a good place to buy a house?
Where do ME16 0 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in ME16 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 30 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME16 district, not just ME16 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
48% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Nursery Avenue, Maidstone, Maidstone
- Clifford Way, Maidstone, Kent, ME16
- Green Horse Grove, Maidstone, Kent, ME16
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every ME16 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in ME: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £360,000 | £494,995 (+37%) | £690,997 (+40%) | £920,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £282,000 | £327,000 (+16%) | £385,000 (+18%) | £475,000 (+23%) | £615,000 (+29%) |
| Terraced | £250,000 | £275,000 (+10%) | £315,000 (+15%) | £405,000 (+29%) | £567,500 (+40%) |
| Flat | £166,500 | £225,000 (+35%) | £340,000 (+51%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the ME area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in ME16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME16 8 | £278,800 | 70 |
| ME16 9 | £385,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full ME16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME16 0? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME16 0's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about ME16 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME16 0 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.